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By MARION UMPLEBY

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — More than 4,000 protesters lined Maple and Bridge streets from Hartford Avenue to Kilton Public Library in West Lebanon on an overcast Saturday afternoon.

WEST LEBANON — The departments of motor vehicles in both Vermont and New Hampshire are warning residents of text message scams that ask recipients to submit payment or risk having their licenses suspended.

By MARION UMPLEBY

WEST LEBANON — This month’s announcement that Rite Aid, the national pharmacy chain, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protections has hit home with its Upper Valley customers, especially those who reside in communities where Rite Aid is the only drugstore in town.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WEST LEBANON — The owner of a nearly century-old furniture store confirms that a rash of complaints from customers over undelivered purchases has put him under investigation by police and state authorities, but he says he has done nothing illicit to cause the failure of his business.

By MARION UMPLEBY

WEST LEBANON — The longtime proprietor of the Four Aces Diner has sold the restaurant, three years after putting it up for sale.

Anne Quirion, of Enfield, left, and her sister-in-law Heidi Knowles react as the engine of Quirion’s 2002 Ford Explorer turns over after they replaced the battery in West Lebanon on Thursday. When Quirion discovered the dead battery after work, she contacted Knowles, who drove her to purchase a replacement and a wrench and helped install it.

By MARION UMPLEBY

WEST LEBANON — As Upper Valley ice cream shops polish their scoops and rev up their machines in advance of the summer season, two new franchises offering frozen sweets prepare to join them.

By MARION UMPLEBY

WEST LEBANON — After more than 45 years in business, financial troubles and a falling out between business partners led music shop Blue Mountain Guitar to take a final bow last weekend.

A group of Jacques Rousseau Secondary School friends returning to Longueuil, Quebec, after a class trip to Boston stop for a meal in West Lebanon on Friday. They have made a tradition of wearing matching hats on each year’s trip.

By MARION UMPLEBY

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Roughly 1,500 people — three times the predicted number — filled the sidewalks on Maple Street from Hartford Avenue to the end of Lyman Bridge on the New Hampshire side of the Connecticut River on a rainy Saturday afternoon.

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

WEST LEBANON — On Thursday, the first of a seasonal series of monthly chick delivery days at West Lebanon Feed & Supply, a cacophony of chirps greeted customers as they stopped in to pick up their orders.

LEBANON — Ramp closures on interstates 89 and 91 will start Wednesday as construction crews finish work on the I-89 Southbound bridge over the Connecticut River, the New Hampshire Department of Transportation announced Monday.

By MARION UMPLEBY

LEBANON — When Lebanon Opera House Executive Director Joe Clifford thinks of Lauren “Duff” Cummings Jr., he pictures him in the shadowy wings of the city’s downtown theater, headset on and Cherry Coke at hand.

By JIM KENYON

WEST LEBANON — While teaching at Richmond Middle School in Hanover for more than 20 years, Judy Collishaw was often the first on the staff to arrive each morning.

By MARION UMPLEBY

WEST LEBANON — General manager and long-term Valley News employee Rich Wallace has been appointed publisher of the newspaper.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WEST LEBANON — The long-delayed River Park mixed-use development that was conceived as a home for biomedical and tech offices is seeking a two-year extension on its site plan, arguing that a court decision last year in the developer’s favor amounts to a “material change” in the plans and paves the way to extend the timeline for the project.

By ELLE MULLER

WEST LEBANON — Two days after Christmas in late December, a mechanical failure in a tenant space at the Powerhouse Mall caused flooding that damaged the flooring in the main lobby and hallway of the first floor, and two tenant spaces.

By MARION UMPLEBY

In French painter Robert Delaunay’s “La Parisienne,” an elegant figure formed of bright swatches of pigment steps across an abstract color field.